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From: "J.Goodleaf" <john@goodleaf.net>
To: "Alexander DiMauro" <alexdimauro@worldnet.att.net>
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This seems like a reasonable place to start.

You should begin, though, by describing the hardware you've got, which 
versions of FreeBSD and XFree86 you're trying to install, and what you mean 
by "crash." 

 -John 

Alexander DiMauro writes: 

> I'm a newbie who is trying to install FreeBSD, but it keeps crashing at the XFree86 Setup part. I'm confused as to where to ask my question since I read that : 
> 
> Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. 
> 
> But when I sign up for that mailing list it says: 
> 
> "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical." 
> 
> So, where do I ask a "how to" about XFree86 Setup? 
> 
> Just wondering...
 


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